Improvement of agricultural life cycle assessment studies through spatial differentiation and new impact categories: case study on greenhouse tomato production.

摘要: This paper presents the inclusion of new, relevant impact categories for agriculture life cycle assessments. We performed a specific case study with focus on applicability spatially explicit characterization factors. The main goals were to provide detailed evaluation these new category methods, compare results commonly used methods (ReCiPe and USEtox) demonstrate how can help improve environmental assessment in agriculture. As an overall conclusion, newly developed helped fill most important gaps related land use, water consumption, pesticide toxicity, nontoxic emissions linked fertilizer use. also found that including biodiversity damage due use effect consumption wetlands represented scientific advance toward more realistic agricultural practices. Likewise, dynamic crop model assessing human toxicity from residue food lead better...